going to be a deal, because i think it's a bit of fear mongering -- not saying anything about you, krystal, to talk about the scenario if we don't get a deal done, i think we'll get a deal done, and wall street is confident that we'll get a deal done. we have seen stocks moving upward in the last couple of days. the consequences are too dire if we don't get a deal done as you laid out. we will get a deal done, right? >> yeah, but, you know -- yes, we will get a deal. but we need a good deal. meaning we need a deal that scales back the fiscal cliff so that we don't have these kinds of tax increases, we don't have these kind of spending cuts. the economy can digest some tax increases and spending cuts, but not what we have currently legislated. the deal has to include an increase in the debt ceiling and harkening back to our rating, we need to come up with a credible plan of deficit reduction over the next decade. that results in deficits in the future that are debt to gdp ratio begins to decline. we'll get a deal, but we need a good deal. if we get the good deal then we'll have a good econo